Mood Disorders
Categorized as prolonged and persistent periods of extreme sadness.
What is Major depressive disorder?
Display of excessive anxiety or worry, most days for at least 6 months, about a number of things.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
This disorder is characterized by limiting food intake or compensation for it through various purging behaviors.
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
A person has difficulty recovering after experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress disorder?
Also called manic depression or bipolar affective disorder, depression that includes alternating times of depression and mania.
What is bipolar disorder?
Recurrent unexpected panic attacks, sudden periods of intense fear that come on quickly and reach their peak within minutes.
What is Panic Disorder?
Uncontrollably consume large amounts of food in short periods of time, then purge.
What is Bulimia Nervosa?
Characterized by a deterioration in cognitive function beyond what might be expected from normal ageing.
What is Dementia?
A long-term (chronic) form of depression
What is dysthymia?
Having a general intense fear of, or anxiety toward, social or performance situations.
People with this disorder typically eat large amounts of food in short periods of time. Unlike Bulimia and anorexia, they do not constrict calories or use purging behaviors.
What is Binge Eating?
This is a severe mental disorder and is characterized by distortions in thinking, perception, emotions, language, sense of self and behavior.
What is schizophrenia?
Mood changes and irritability that occur during the premenstrual phase of a woman's cycle and go away with the onset of menses
What is Premenstrual dysphoric disorder?
A rare disorder associated with anxiety. This occurs when people fail to speak in specific social situations despite having normal language skills.
What is selective mutism?
Craving and eating non-food substances. This may result in poisoning, infections, gut injuries, or nutrient deficiencies.
What is Pica?
A serious developmental disorder that impairs the ability to communicate and interact.
What is autism?
This mood disorder is a form of depression most often associated with fewer hours of daylight in the far northern and southern latitudes from late fall to early spring.
What is Seasonal affective disorder?
Worry about panic attacks, and the effort spent trying to avoid attacks which interferes in ones daily life.
What is agoraphobia?
A condition in which a person regurgitates food they have previously chewed and swallowed, re-chews it and then either re-swallows it or spits it out.
What is Rumination Disorder?
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What is the Suicide Prevention Hotline?